The effect of an enhanced infection-control policy on the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection and methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus colonization in acute elderly medical patients

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 561-568

  Stone, Sheldon P ^a   Beric, Virka ^a   Quick, Anne ^a   Balestrini, Anita A ^a   Kibbler, Christopher C ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute medical patients; Clostridium difficile; Infection control policy; Methicillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; 6 AMINOPENICILLANIC ACID; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PENICILLANIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WINTER; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG UTILIZATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; CEPHALOSPORINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENGLAND; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLANIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 0031752361     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.5.561     Document Type: Article

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